4th Studio Album on Clear EcoRecord Vinyl LP!

2009 Grammy Award Winner:
Song of the Year: "Viva La Vida"
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: "Viva La Vida"
Best Rock Album:Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friendsis the fourth full-length studio album by Coldplay. Featuring over 45 minutes of music across ten tracks, it represents a significant evolution in the signature Coldplay sound.Viva la Vida, which takes its name from a painting by 20th century Mexican artist Friday Kahlo (not the painting featured on the cover, which isLiberty Leading the Peopleby Eugene Delacroix), translates as "Live the Life" in Spanish.

Legendary producer and musician Brian Eno, who has worked with Paul Simon, David Bowie, and U2, was on-hand to help guide Coldplay into the musical world ofViva la Vida. New to the oeuvre are sweeping instrumentals, lush soundscapes, and jaunting rhythms. This sonic development is akin to frontman Chris Martin's lyrical evolution, with the band proclaiming the new lyrical foundation to be "much more abstract, much more visual than before," as well as "less straight-forward, more oblique."

Where soft arena rock was the modus operandi before,Viva la Vidarelishes in its moments of the most familiar and alienating sounds. If that seems paradoxical, it is! With their latest release, Coldplay has perfected the art of effortlessly blending plaintive, infectious melodies with atypical song structures, abrasive electric guitars, and Latin-spiced rhythmic deviations.

This is the same Coldplay who put out the breakthrough smashParachutes, the Grammy Award-winningA Rush of Blood to the Head, and the triple-platinumX&Y, but the London-based quartet has proved once again that they are the quintessential pop rock band of the 21st century.

Features

• Clear EcoRecord Vinyl LP

Selections

1. Life in Technicolor
2. Cemeteries of London
3. Lost!
4. 42
5. Lovers in Japan / Reign of Love
6. Yes
7. Viva La Vida
8. Violet Hill
9. Strawberry Swing
10. Death and All His Friends